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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1933-01-13

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1933-01-13, page 01

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Central Ohio's Only
Jewish Neiaspaper
Reaching Every Home
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
VOLUME XV—No. 107
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JANUARY 13, 1933
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
By the Way
By David Schwartz
A Jewish Trader Horn
Many months ago, this coUnnn sug¬ gested that there olight to bc plenty of material for a Jewish Trader Horn. Wc pointed to the large number of tlicse old South African traders who were Jews and we went further to mention even one man—a former South African traderjbut now a newspaperman, who, wc thought, could qualify for the task. This man, had related to us, in private, some of, the experiences he had with llic natives of South Africa, and it was the kind of. material we tholight that good Irooks are made from.
But this newspaperman, battling for his .daily bread, with wife and children to stipport, never got down to it. Hails from Odessa But there is to be a Jewish Trader Horn nevertheless. And the book ahout tbe Jewish Trader Horn,, it seems, is to be written iby Mrs. Lewis, the woman who wrote the lite of the original and now immortal Trader Horn. . ; Mrs, Lewis plans now to write of the life of a Jewish peddler, who came from Odessa, peddled in South Africa, joined the British army at the outbreak ot the World War even though he wa.s sixty- three years old and was wounded at the buttle of Ypres.
The old peddler is dead, says Mrs. Lewis, "but 1 hope to carry out the task if only to keep green the memory of an embittered and cyJiical but inately gentle, almost Qiriat-like old hero and repro¬ bate."
CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK
(On the Occasion c»f His 60th Birthday)
By
Simon Ernst
Saint and Reprobate .i^
That phrase "Christ-like old hero and rciirobate" which Mrs. Lc;wis attaches to this Jewish peddler is noteworthy. It seems you've got to be both saintly and reprobate—to be worth writing about. In the Kingdom of Heaven, you can enter by being merely saintly, but to get the im¬ mortality of the Kingdom of Books, you've got to be a saint, ami a little of devil at the bame time.
Spiritual Qualitieij But this Jewish peddler, i.t appears, had another quality, whicli Mrs. Lewis rightfully points.out, is even more im¬ portant.
^^ "Jt is fiueer and tragic", she writes, 'how so few reamers realize, it isn't adventure that makes a book, but certain qualities of the spirit. Of eighty-three profferctl lives artd manuscripts, which catne from all over the world, only this one seemed to me to have the qualities of good literature.^: ' -
A Great Mind A woman dies, She never held public office, yet her obsequies are marked as that of a great statesman ami in a fun- damejital sense Mrs. Henry Moskowitz was a great statesman. . She had the best mind of any person that he had ever met, comments AI Stnitli. Strangely enough, Mrs. Moskowitz has been quoted as disparaging the feminine mind. She hclieved in feminine intuition, but not in feminine reason. In reason¬ ing quality, she thought, men were supe¬ rior. \
But what is reason and what is intu¬ ition ? It is so hard to analyze these things that one can't place under a microscope. A Biblical "Animal" I came across a good Biblical story the other day, said to have .been a favor¬ ite of the late Theodore 14oosevelt.
Teddy was telling of a friend of his, who cherished a warm esteem for the Scriptures and frequently read the Bible to his boy.
One day, this friend took his little youngster to the New York Zoo. The two saw the elephant, the lion and so on down the line. "Ishn't there a zeal here?" asked the little bpi' of his father. "The zeal—what do you mean by the zeal }*'
"Oh, don't you know, daddy? The zeal of tliy house hath eaten mc up." No Fun Depression But speaking about these "gags", there seems to be no danger of any over-pro¬ duction, at least, in their case.
It appears, indeed that the oive pro¬ fession, which has not suflfered fr<?m the depression is the comedian. The Cantors, the Hohzes, etc, arc paying as high in¬ come taxes this year as ever, and even the! towly writers of these gags are lowly no longer^ It seems that the man who ran turn out a gag nowadays can wax fat like JesHrun. So great is the de- inand-for ^ags, that alas, some at them that are being turned out, must give the man of any taste a pain in the neck. One of them that I saw this week in Win- chell's column, credited to Holtz gave me more,than that. It almost gave me double pneumonia.
Such an Old One It is/One of the oldest Jewish stories that I ever knew. Three years ago, I was on (he point of using it, but I didn't nave the heart. It is that oldatory, about the Tew who at the request of his old neighbor, who had moved to another city, nsited him^at the latter's request. But as his visit was concluded, his old neigh¬ bor, changed him for rent and board. So the visitor took the case to the rabbi, and the. rahbi ruled that the visitor must pay, even though he had been invited by his friend.'
As the two left the.rabbi, the visitor said to the party of the other part. "You know neverthelesi? that the rabb' ja wrong —that you shouldn't charge me/'
"T know", replied the second party, "but 1 just did it to show you what a rotten rabbi we have in town." Wise and Seabnry I-was very pleased to hear tliat Dr, Wise bad presided at the Seabury meet¬ ing at which the incorjpioration of pro¬ portional rc|)resentation in the charter of of tbe Rahbi, will meet with Mias Seff at New Vorlc was urged.
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It IS extremely difficult, in most casca, to gauge the permanent value of the work of a living poet, with any degree of certitude. It is only When such work has stood the test of time, and is studied in proper perspective, thai a true judg¬ ment as to its artistic worth, can be formed. The poems of Bialik are, per¬ haps, a rare exception to thia rule. _ Hebrew poets have arisen in all pe¬ riods of the various lands of Jewish dis¬ persion. A few of them, such as Yehuda Ilalcvy and Ben Gabriol, in Spain, Emanuel iHaromi, in Italy, jf. I« Gordon in Russia, and N. H. Weisel in Germany, may bc said to foe of the first rank. Very many others of lesser talent, including metnbers of anonymous poets, sprang up in. times of special stress, such aa existed in Poland in the seventeenth century, during the epoch of the terrible atroci¬ ties perpetrated against the Jews in that country by Cliielnitzky. And even today I there is no lack of Hebrew poets; but Bialik is unanimously recognized as standing alone, pre-eminent, far above any of his living contemporaries, equal, if not superior to the greatest of the literary giants of the mighty past.^
Chaiin N'achman Bialik saw the iight in at) obscure village in South Russia in 187:?. His early upbringing differed lit¬ tle from that of other children of the village. At a tender age he was sent to "Chcder" to bc taught the Bible and ritual prayers, and, later on, to the "Ye¬ shivah" where Talmud and its numerous commentaries - \vere studied. But Bialik, while not neglecting his school tasks, used to take any opportimity which of¬ fered, to escape alone into the dense woods surrounding his native village. As a hoy, Bialik's love of solitude isolated and estranged him from his school fel¬ lows. Instead of participating in their childish pranlcs, he used to wander forth alone, hook in hatid, to his beloved woods, there to dream and to impregnate himself with the beauty and majesty of N,iture. But barely had his childhood passed when a new and dark chapter of his life opened. His father died at an curly age,^ in poverty, and after a brief interval his mother passed away. Then it was that young Bialik began to ex¬ perience something of the bitter tragedy of life. Unaided, and without material resources, he had to educate himself, and to fight ids way up the ladder of life. Those early struggles are reflected in his first poems whic^ he succeeded in having published in Odessa^ iil the jour¬ nal edited by the late Achad Ha'am.
In the poem entitled "Orphan Song," Bialik compares life to a forest in the shadow of a late northern aulunm—the green and russet leaves all gone, and the clean white snow not yet fallen. In an¬ other iwem of those years, "The Lone Star," he launched his curses upon the Ghetto and its life. "My father is Black Poverty," bitter Exile is my mother; but it is not the beggar's wallet I fear; for seven times more priiel, more terrible than these Is life itself, the life that knows no hope, no radiance, the life of a hungry dog fetter;ed to its chain—Oh, curse upon you. Life that knows no hope." ^
Bialik, as an artist,^nd as a poet, has throughout his career been influenced and molded by hia environment. In his young manhood the "Haskala" movement iu Russia, the early strivings towards Jewish National emancipation, the revolt
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against the physical restrictions and con¬ ditions of Ghetto Ijfc, and, above all, the horror evoked by the terrible anti-Jew- i.sh excesses in Russia, all touched liini profoundly, and all found eloqiicut'and passionate expression in his poems.';:
The Kishinev pogrom in 1903 called forth the most famous of his pdenia, "The Cify of Slaughter." This poem sums up the effect of the massacre in:thc following words: "Great is the sorrow, and great is the j/w/we,—which is the greater, answer thou, O, sdn of Manl" The main lesson of the pogrom was shame, the deep humiliation of a people who allow themselves to be beaten and killed. The indignation vibrating in every line of the poem is not against the murderers, it is against the Jew hiinscU that Bialik thunders. These are the descendants of the heroic Maccahcatis, yet "they ran like mice, they hid them¬ selves like bed-bugs and died the death I of dogs wherever. found."
The effect of this poem, comparable only to the XXVI! chapter ot Deuter¬ onomy in the bitterness of its invective; was exceiptionat, there are few exaniplca in history of a poem influencing a gene¬ ration so deeply and so directly. The revival, of Maccabean tendencies in the Ghetto dates from the poem; as did the self-defense organizations which sprang up all over Russia where Jews resided, to meet the new pogrom wave two years later, and also the "SHomerim" move¬ ment in Palestine, even the formation of the Jewish Legion which fought for the Holy_ Land in 1916—aJLmay be said to bp Bialik's children.
For some years now Bialik has rhade his_ home in Tel-Aviv, Palestine., His' residence, artistically designed in orien¬ tal style, surmounted by a dome, is re¬ plete with rare treasures, nqt least <jf which is a collection of modern paintings by young Jewish Palestinian artists, whom Bialik delights to encourage. The street where his house is bUilt is named after him, an honor rarely bestow^ on a man during his lifetime. _ Bialik, like all true poets, can only sing when inspired. 'For years now, his Muse lias been almost silent. Only sel¬ dom during the last twelve years has he publbhed any new poems, and even among these the best one begins with the words: "Let my lot be with those who are silent."
Early in 1923 Bialik's fiftieth anniver- sary-was celebrated-throughout* the JcW'" ish world. He- declined to be present at any of these celebrations. His reply to the flood of greetings, from every corner of the earth was a short poem in which the same refrain ia repeated:
"I am not a poet nor a prophet, I am a hewer of wood." Although, as has been said, Bialik's fwctic output has Itio- mentarily ceased, his activities in other spheres are great. His remarkable and successful work as editor and publisher of classical and school literature in He¬ brew, is well known. He frequently appears on the ptiblic platforms of Tel- Aviv or Jerusalem, as lecturer on social questions of the day, where his utter¬ ances are listened to with the respect which they deserve.
But it is not on these activities, im¬ portant as they may be, that Bialik's last¬ ing fame will rest.
It is his immortal poems which will make liis name Hve forever.
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E. X Schdhfarber Installs
Newly-Elected Officers of
Zion Lodge
Edwin J. Schanfarber, past president of District N<i. 2^ B'nai B'rith, uud a mem¬ ber of the National Commission for Hil¬ lel Foundation Activities, oflicially iii'- stalled the following ofhccrs of Zion Lodge, No. (12, B'nai B'rith, at a meeting held in the social hall of the Broad Street Temple Monday evening, January Sth, in the presence of a great concourse of people ;--Harry Schwartz, President; Jack B. Wolstein, Vice-President; Dr. R. A. Jaffee, Secretary; Isadorc W. I Garek, Warden; Samuel Gurevitz, Outer 1 Guard. '
Robert L. Mellman, the outgoing Pres¬ ident of Zion Lodge, was honored by the presentation of a diamond-studded Men¬ orah. His work on behalf of the Lodge during the past year was extolled in glowing terms. The chief address of the evening was given by Rabbi "Jacob Tarshish, his theme was "The Jew Faces The Future".
At the January 2Srd meeting of Zioii Lodge No. 62, B'nai B'rith, the A. Z. A. will formally install their newly elected officers, for the coming year. Everybody is welcome to attend this meeting. Fur¬ ther details regarding this A. Z. A. pro¬ gram will apirear in next week's issue of the Chronicle.
As 1 See It
By A. M. N.
The lieligious Committee of the Rose E.. 'Lazarus Sisterhood has completed plans for "Sisterhood Sabbath." This will be , held Friday evening, January 20th, at S-.m P. M., in Temple Israel, 18th St. and Bryden Road. ¦
Mrs. Edwin J. Schanfarber, Chairman of Religion, will read the service; Rabbi Samuel M. Gup will give the Adoration and Kaddish; Mrs. Celia Kahn Rosen¬ thal will sing a solo, accompanied at the organ by Mr. Edwiu Stainbrook.
Mrs. W. A. Hersch, President of the Sisterhood, will introduce the speaker, Celia Schanfarber Levy, of Chicago. Mrs. Levy is well known in Columbus, having graduated from Ohio State Uni¬ versity, and being a partner for three years in the practice of law with her brother, Edwin J. Schanfarber, until her marriage to Rabbi Felix Levy, of Chi¬ cago. Mrs. Levy has been closely iden¬ tified with the work of the Sisterhood, the Council of Jewish Women, and other Jewish women's organizations for many years, and is well qualified to bring a reab message to Columbus Jewry.,
Rabbi and Mrs. Levy just returned in September from a summer spent touring Continental Europe. Oh former trips ^hfy visited 'Palestine and Russia; so Mrs, Levy is thoroughly conversant with- Jewish life here and abroad. Hersub- ject, "Whither Womanhood in Religion?" should be of interest, not only to mem¬ bers of the Sisterhood, but to each and every meniber of the Congregation. ,
Mrs. Nathan Gumble^ who has always taken an active part in our Sisterhood, having beeh a former president, will give the Closing Prayer, Mrs. I. A. Glick and Mrs. Leo Kessel, members of thie Religious Committee, will, usher.
Lazarus Sisterhood Meeting
On Monday Afternoon,
January IGth
Tlie Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood will hold its regular monthly card party on Monday, January ICth, at 1:30 p. m., in the Bryden Road Temple. As is the cus¬ tom of these functions, three door prizes will be given away. and refreshments served.
Mrs. Sam Meisner and Mrs. Simon Lazarus will he in cliarge and tlie follow¬ ing wonien will serve in various capacl ties. Mrs. B. S. Goldman will be. u charge of refreshments. Tickets will be taken care of by Mrs. Edwin J. Schan¬ farber and Mrs. Herbert Levy. . The prizes will be raffled by Mrs. Ralph Rosenthal.
Many Are Looking Forward
To Charity Ball Sunday
Evening
With weeks of preparation behind tlicni the Columbus Y. M. H. A. will present its first annual charity ball at the new Fo'castlc Ballroom, Nineteenth Avenue at Fourth Street, Sunday night, wlien the largest crowd of dancers ever to attend the North Side dance pavilion is anticipated.
Central Ohio's most popular dance band, under the leadership of Abe Dwor¬ kin, prominent local Jewish dance maestro will furnish music for the dancers. .
Patrons from numerous cities through¬ out Ohio have announced their intentions of attending, Dayton will have the larg¬ est representation among out-of-town cities, when, nearly three hundred are expected to witness the annual Y.i M. H. A.-Dayton A. Z. A. basketball game at the Godman Guild on the afternoon of the dance. Numerous supporters are ex¬ pected from' Lancaster, Zanesville, Dela¬ ware and Toledo.
Hermaii Huffman, D1I8 East Mound Street, dance chairman, will turn over a large part of the Y. M, H. A. profits veaSzed at the dance carnival to the Hadassah Penny Luncheon Fund, of which Miss Rose Sugannan, executive director of Schonthal Center is cliairnian. The sponsoring organization, which ^ in its past charity events has been turning over its profits to various charitable projects has voted this year to benefit the Hadassah Fund which aids starving school youngsters in Palestine to receive proper nourishment,
Tickets are not facing sold in advance for cither the dance or basketball game. They are selling for forty cents per per¬ son for the dance and fifteen cetits for the game. Couples only will be admitted to the dance. . '
Mr. Joseph L. Schwartz gave the chil¬ dren a treat, for which the Home is most grateful.
Visitors at the Home are always wel- rotrp.
RABBI TARSHISH TO REVIEW BOOK AT BROAD ST. TEMPLE
NOTES FROM THE JEWISH INPANTO' HOME OF OHIO
The officers and bo^rd of directors of the Infants' 'Home of Ohio, wish to take this opportunity of thanking the Ivreeyoh Society, of which Mrs. L S. Goldberg is president, for its kind donation of cutiiied fruits and jellies,'
Rabbi Jacob Tarshish will review the play, "Another Language," on Wednes¬ day afternoon, January 18th, at 1:30 o'clock at the East Broad Street Temple, under the auspices of the Tifcreth Israel Sisterhodd. Following the review there will be a tea._
This affair is open to the general pub¬ lic, and reser|Vation5 at a nominal fee of SOc can be made by calling either Mrs. John Katz, MAin 3770, or Mrs. Ben Finkelstein, EV. 3O0O. The proceeds will go to the Temple.
Saturday Luncheon on
January 21 st
The Religious Committee and the Board of Directors of the Rose E. Laz arus Sisterhood will entertain with a luncheon on Saturday, January 21st, at 13:!lf> p. m., at the Cambridge Arms Apartmeilts, in honor of Celia Schanfar¬ ber Levy, of Chicago, Illinois, who will be guest speaker on Friday evening, Jan¬ uary 20th, at "Sisterhood Sabbatli" in Temple Israel. Rabbi and Mrs. Samuel M. Guit will also be guests at the luncheon. Mrs. I. A. Wolf> chairman of Hospitality of the Sisterhood, is making arrangements for the luncheon. .
UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTOR
TO ADDRESS AGUDATH
ACHIM OPEN FORUM
Mr. Louis Levine, an instructor in the iCollege lOf Commerce at the Ohio State University, will be the speaker before the Agudath Achim Open Forum^ at the Agudath Achim Synagogue, Wash¬ ington Avenue and Donaldson Street, on Friday evening, January 20, at 8 p. ra.
His subject will be announced at a later date, but the committee assures everyone that it will be a timely and in¬ teresting subject and urges all members of the Congregation and their friends, as well as the general community to attend. The usual discussion will follow the speaker's address.
Mr. Sam Wolman will preside as chairman of this meeting.
0. S. U. Avukah To Be Ad¬ dressed By Rabbi Hirsch¬ sprung On Sunday Evening
Rahbi Mordecai Hirschprung, of the Agudath .Adiim, .Cppgregati.cin, u wai,,^he^ the-guest speaker-at the-first meeting, of- Avukah during the winter quarter which wUl be held on Sunday evening, January 15th, at 8 o'clock, at the Hillel Founda-; tion. The subject selected by Rabbi Hirschprung is "Orthodox Judaism and Zionism."
Miss Bess Marks, educational chair¬ man, will give a report on a chapter in the History of Zionism. This marks a new form of Zionist; education which is replacing the usual current events. Other members on the Education com¬ mittee are Abe Gurdy, Aaron Levitin, Nathan Girundstein, and Joe Alson. A social hour will follow.
At the Regional Conference of the .\vukah Chapters of Ohio, which met in Columbus on December fith, 1932, a debate between the Western Reserve Chapter and the Ohio State Chapter was arranged. This debate dealing. with Zionism, will be held during the Spring vacation in Cleveland. Further announce¬ ments will be given at the meeting.
The Founder's Day banquet which will mark the Sth anniversary of Avukah on the Ohio State Campus, is being planned. The date has been set for Sunday, Feb¬ ruary aOth. The committee iii charge of arrangements are Rose Schalit, Helen Anne Nutis, Cecelia Schalit, Hilda Fist, Aaron Levitin, Nathan Grundstein, Nor¬ man Price, and Joe Klein.
Hebrew School Drive Is Mak¬ ing Rapid Progress
More than $3000 in pledges have al¬ ready been received for the 1933 budget in the Columbus Hebrew School Cam¬ paign which will continue to the end of January, it was annoimced this week by Allan Tarshish, recently elected campaign chairman,
A meeting of about fifty workers was held last Wednesday at the Hebrew School and several hundred names were distributed for solicitation of pledges. THe goal for 1933 is a minimum of $8,000, required to carry on the activities of the school.
A list of pledges thus far made, will be mentioned in next week's issue of the Chronicle.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
The Ivreeyoh Society wish to make the following announcement: On Sundav eveiiiug, February 5th, the Society will hold a tea at the Hebrew School. A very interesting program is being planned. Further particulars _ will be announced later. On the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, February 6tli and 7th, the Iv¬ reeyoh have taken over the Victor' Theatre at which time "The Blessed Event" will be presented. This picture was recently shown at one oi the down¬ town theatres. Tickets are now on sale at ISc, and can be obtained from either Mrs. Samuel Brief. FA. 3050, ur Mrs, Simon Handler. EV. 5978.
EZRAS NOSHIM MEETING
The regular meeting of the Ezras Noshim Society, will be held Sunday afternoon, Januai*y 15th, in the vestry rooms of the Agudath Achim Congrega¬ tion. All members are urged to attend tins meeting as very important business will be discussed.
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Junior Hadassah Meeting On
Snnday Afternoon At
Southern Hotel
Dr. Emily L. Stogdill, Clinician for Women at Ohio State University, will talk on "Personality Adjustment" at the meeting of the Columbus Unit of Junior Hadassah at the Southern Hotel Sunday afternoon at 3:li5.
"Songs in Costume" by Miss Betty Fry and Current Events by Miss Katherinq Baker are also included on the, program for this meeting, j
Miss Baker, Cultural Chairman of the organization, announces a meeting with Rghbi M. Hirschprung at the Agudath Achim Synagogue ori Monday evening, January 1&, at 8:15 P. M.
All members of the organization are urged to attend these meetings.
i know of no institution which is doing finer work than the Leo N. Levi Me¬ morial Hospital, of Hot Springs, Ark. During the past year this great House . of Healing provided for the care and maintenance of 4557 patients in its wards and clinics. According to Dr. A. B. Rhine, superintendent, these patients came from every section of the country; from as far cast as New York and as. far west as California, and represent practically every state in the Union. The expenditures for the year were ahout .?G5,000,
The hospital is strictly a charitable institution and admits no pay patients, though it encourages its patients to make a modest contribution towards their main¬ tenance if possible, The hospital is a modern institution in every respect and is listed as class A by the American Col¬ lege of Surgeons. In addition to _thc usual equipments bf a modern hospital, it is provided with the hot baths from tlie Arkansas Hot Springs which are owned by the Federal government. The Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital offers special facilities in the treatment of Arthritic and Rheumatic diseases.
Morris M. Levinson, of Columbus, who is now a patient there speaks highly of the splendid care and attention given all patients. In a letter to. the editor of the Ohio Jewish Chroiiicle, he commends the B'nai B'rith for the fouiid.mg and. the fostering of the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital.
I am glad to hear that Dr. Chaiin Weizmann, former president of the World Zionist Organization, was re¬ elected president of the English Zionist Federation last week and that his elec¬ tion was uncontested. Following his election, Dr. Weizmann appealed for wider support for the Keren Hayesod and di.scussed the present Zionist position in the light of the crisis in world Jewry. Dr. Weizmann declined to disiruss polit¬ ical questions, preferring. He said, not further, to aggravate an already aggra¬ vated situaticwi. He emphasized the satis¬ factory position in Palestine, the steady flow of immigrants into Palestine, the ab¬ sence of unemployment and the influx of capital.
"This satisfactory situation does not, unfortunately, affect the Jewish Agency which today is the weakest spot in^ the strucure we are building' in Palesine," assered. Dr. Weizmann. "A great many efforts arid enterprises have been tmder- iaken'din Palestine over-the -Uead*of- the- Jewish Agency whidi has had the effect of weakening it the more," he said.
The Keren Hayesod and the Jewish National Fund are also experiencing^ dif¬ ficulties, he declared. Dr. Weizmann ap¬ pealed to Palestine colonists to make larger contributions to these two fuiid.i and called upon the rich cplonists to make payments on the loans they have received from the Jewish Agency. He paid tribute to ihe Palestine High ,Com- missioner, "who," he said, "has our re¬ spect and who has affection for - our Home, but we are still struggling to at¬ tain a fair share for Jewish labor in the Mandatory's public works.
"No Arabs think of employing Jews, so we must insist that Jews employ Jew¬ ish labor until there is more co-operation between the three elements for the gen¬ eral benefit of the country." Dr. Wciz- mann's reference was to the recent dis¬ putes over the employment of Arab.labor ¦ by Jews, particularly in the Gan Sharon orange groves.
I wrish Dri Weizmann continued^ good health, so that he may forward his ac¬ tivities on behalf of a reiuvenated Jew¬ ish Homeland. He is one of the giants in World Jewry whose loyalty and faith¬ fulness lias neyer been questioned. He has always been making sacrifices to promote the Zionist cause, and, I am sure, he will continue to do so in the years to come.
A dispatcli from Warsaw informs me that a Cbristian Pole living in the town of StanislaU risked his wife's life rather than to allow her to be operated on by a Jewish physician. The woman was rushed to a Jewish hospital in Warsaw in a critical condition, when fishbones from her Christmas dinner stuck in her throat, threatening to choke her to death. When the husband learned tluit an opera¬ tion was decided upon to save her life, he removed her shouting, "The Jews want to kill her." Such an incident is symptomatic of the harrow, bjgotted in¬ fluences pervading the land of Poland. It smacks more of medieval ignorance than of twentieth century civilization.
The regiilar meeting. of the Ladies' Free Loan Society will be held on Tues¬ day evening, Jan. 17, in the social hall of the Agudath Achim Congregation. Election of officers will take place at this lime.
The Ladies* Free Loan Society will hold its annual dinner on Sunday even¬ ing, February 19th. in the banquet hall of the Agnrfath Achim Congregation. A delicious dinner will be prepared, and a prograni of real entertainment is beint; arranged. Reservations are beinflr made with either Mr:.. L. Brodskv. EV. 1353, or Mrs. L, Fishking, GA. 5213.
Rabbi Lee J. Levinger To Ad¬ dress Hadassah On Mon- day^ January 17th
In the calendar for suggested programs for Hadassah, Jamiary has been set aside for the Jewish National Fund. The local chapter of Hadassah will hold its regular meeting on January 17th, at 1:30 p. m., at the Southern 'Hotel, Rabbi Lee J- Levinger has accepted tlie invitation to give a.talk on "The Map of Palestine." "rhis will afford the membership a fine opportunity.to leant more about the vari¬ ous points of in^rest in Palestine.
All metnbers who have boxes in tlieir homes, are urged to bring them to this meeting, so that the committee in charge may continue with their work.
A musical program will be furnished .by Mrs, Josepl^ L. Schwartz, who will render several vocal selections. She will he accomiKinied on the. piano by Mrs, Max Schottenstein.
It seems to me that if tliere ib one outr president, for its kind donation of cuiined Mrs, Samuel Brief. FA. 3050, ur Mrs, with either Mrs. L. Brodskv. El (Continued on p>ige 2) fruits and jellies.' Simon Handler, EV. 5978. ^ 'or Mrs. L, Fishking, GA. 5213.
Jewish women must cultivate a Jewish social life, if Judaism is to continue, de¬ clared Mrs. Paula Ollendorf of Breslau, Germany, at a Channukah tea arranged by tlie New York City branch of the Women's League of the United Syna¬ gogues of America last week at the Park Lane Hotel, New York. Mrs. Ollendorf, who is vice-president of the National Council of Jewish Women of Germany, an organization of 00,000 members and also a descendant of Joseph Karo, the author of the Schulchan Arucli, contrasted the modern 'Jewish woman with the Jewish woman of the Ghetta-
"The walls of the ghetto preserved the 'Jewish people by compellii^ Jews to live together." Mrs. Ollendorf said. "When these walla are down their func¬ tion must be maintained. The Jewish woman must create a warm congeniaUty In social intercourse that will keep Jew¬ ish life in existence."
The Mizrachi Organization has for* mally opened ils campaign fur the year W-Vi, to raise $100,000 for the Mizrachi Palestine Fund. A delegation has come from Pjlestiiie, coiisisfini^ of Ualyla (ContimittI on [Xige 2)
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VOLUME XV—No. 107
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JANUARY 13, 1933
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By the Way
By David Schwartz
A Jewish Trader Horn
Many months ago, this coUnnn sug¬ gested that there olight to bc plenty of material for a Jewish Trader Horn. Wc pointed to the large number of tlicse old South African traders who were Jews and we went further to mention even one man—a former South African traderjbut now a newspaperman, who, wc thought, could qualify for the task. This man, had related to us, in private, some of, the experiences he had with llic natives of South Africa, and it was the kind of. material we tholight that good Irooks are made from.
But this newspaperman, battling for his .daily bread, with wife and children to stipport, never got down to it. Hails from Odessa But there is to be a Jewish Trader Horn nevertheless. And the book ahout tbe Jewish Trader Horn,, it seems, is to be written iby Mrs. Lewis, the woman who wrote the lite of the original and now immortal Trader Horn. . ; Mrs, Lewis plans now to write of the life of a Jewish peddler, who came from Odessa, peddled in South Africa, joined the British army at the outbreak ot the World War even though he wa.s sixty- three years old and was wounded at the buttle of Ypres.
The old peddler is dead, says Mrs. Lewis, "but 1 hope to carry out the task if only to keep green the memory of an embittered and cyJiical but inately gentle, almost Qiriat-like old hero and repro¬ bate."
CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK
(On the Occasion c»f His 60th Birthday)
By
Simon Ernst
Saint and Reprobate .i^
That phrase "Christ-like old hero and rciirobate" which Mrs. Lc;wis attaches to this Jewish peddler is noteworthy. It seems you've got to be both saintly and reprobate—to be worth writing about. In the Kingdom of Heaven, you can enter by being merely saintly, but to get the im¬ mortality of the Kingdom of Books, you've got to be a saint, ami a little of devil at the bame time.
Spiritual Qualitieij But this Jewish peddler, i.t appears, had another quality, whicli Mrs. Lewis rightfully points.out, is even more im¬ portant.
^^ "Jt is fiueer and tragic", she writes, 'how so few reamers realize, it isn't adventure that makes a book, but certain qualities of the spirit. Of eighty-three profferctl lives artd manuscripts, which catne from all over the world, only this one seemed to me to have the qualities of good literature.^: ' -
A Great Mind A woman dies, She never held public office, yet her obsequies are marked as that of a great statesman ami in a fun- damejital sense Mrs. Henry Moskowitz was a great statesman. . She had the best mind of any person that he had ever met, comments AI Stnitli. Strangely enough, Mrs. Moskowitz has been quoted as disparaging the feminine mind. She hclieved in feminine intuition, but not in feminine reason. In reason¬ ing quality, she thought, men were supe¬ rior. \
But what is reason and what is intu¬ ition ? It is so hard to analyze these things that one can't place under a microscope. A Biblical "Animal" I came across a good Biblical story the other day, said to have .been a favor¬ ite of the late Theodore 14oosevelt.
Teddy was telling of a friend of his, who cherished a warm esteem for the Scriptures and frequently read the Bible to his boy.
One day, this friend took his little youngster to the New York Zoo. The two saw the elephant, the lion and so on down the line. "Ishn't there a zeal here?" asked the little bpi' of his father. "The zeal—what do you mean by the zeal }*'
"Oh, don't you know, daddy? The zeal of tliy house hath eaten mc up." No Fun Depression But speaking about these "gags", there seems to be no danger of any over-pro¬ duction, at least, in their case.
It appears, indeed that the oive pro¬ fession, which has not suflfered frige 2)
It IS extremely difficult, in most casca, to gauge the permanent value of the work of a living poet, with any degree of certitude. It is only When such work has stood the test of time, and is studied in proper perspective, thai a true judg¬ ment as to its artistic worth, can be formed. The poems of Bialik are, per¬ haps, a rare exception to thia rule. _ Hebrew poets have arisen in all pe¬ riods of the various lands of Jewish dis¬ persion. A few of them, such as Yehuda Ilalcvy and Ben Gabriol, in Spain, Emanuel iHaromi, in Italy, jf. I« Gordon in Russia, and N. H. Weisel in Germany, may bc said to foe of the first rank. Very many others of lesser talent, including metnbers of anonymous poets, sprang up in. times of special stress, such aa existed in Poland in the seventeenth century, during the epoch of the terrible atroci¬ ties perpetrated against the Jews in that country by Cliielnitzky. And even today I there is no lack of Hebrew poets; but Bialik is unanimously recognized as standing alone, pre-eminent, far above any of his living contemporaries, equal, if not superior to the greatest of the literary giants of the mighty past.^
Chaiin N'achman Bialik saw the iight in at) obscure village in South Russia in 187:?. His early upbringing differed lit¬ tle from that of other children of the village. At a tender age he was sent to "Chcder" to bc taught the Bible and ritual prayers, and, later on, to the "Ye¬ shivah" where Talmud and its numerous commentaries - \vere studied. But Bialik, while not neglecting his school tasks, used to take any opportimity which of¬ fered, to escape alone into the dense woods surrounding his native village. As a hoy, Bialik's love of solitude isolated and estranged him from his school fel¬ lows. Instead of participating in their childish pranlcs, he used to wander forth alone, hook in hatid, to his beloved woods, there to dream and to impregnate himself with the beauty and majesty of N,iture. But barely had his childhood passed when a new and dark chapter of his life opened. His father died at an curly age,^ in poverty, and after a brief interval his mother passed away. Then it was that young Bialik began to ex¬ perience something of the bitter tragedy of life. Unaided, and without material resources, he had to educate himself, and to fight ids way up the ladder of life. Those early struggles are reflected in his first poems whic^ he succeeded in having published in Odessa^ iil the jour¬ nal edited by the late Achad Ha'am.
In the poem entitled "Orphan Song," Bialik compares life to a forest in the shadow of a late northern aulunm—the green and russet leaves all gone, and the clean white snow not yet fallen. In an¬ other iwem of those years, "The Lone Star," he launched his curses upon the Ghetto and its life. "My father is Black Poverty," bitter Exile is my mother; but it is not the beggar's wallet I fear; for seven times more priiel, more terrible than these Is life itself, the life that knows no hope, no radiance, the life of a hungry dog fetter;ed to its chain—Oh, curse upon you. Life that knows no hope." ^
Bialik, as an artist,^nd as a poet, has throughout his career been influenced and molded by hia environment. In his young manhood the "Haskala" movement iu Russia, the early strivings towards Jewish National emancipation, the revolt
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against the physical restrictions and con¬ ditions of Ghetto Ijfc, and, above all, the horror evoked by the terrible anti-Jew- i.sh excesses in Russia, all touched liini profoundly, and all found eloqiicut'and passionate expression in his poems.';:
The Kishinev pogrom in 1903 called forth the most famous of his pdenia, "The Cify of Slaughter." This poem sums up the effect of the massacre in:thc following words: "Great is the sorrow, and great is the j/w/we,—which is the greater, answer thou, O, sdn of Manl" The main lesson of the pogrom was shame, the deep humiliation of a people who allow themselves to be beaten and killed. The indignation vibrating in every line of the poem is not against the murderers, it is against the Jew hiinscU that Bialik thunders. These are the descendants of the heroic Maccahcatis, yet "they ran like mice, they hid them¬ selves like bed-bugs and died the death I of dogs wherever. found."
The effect of this poem, comparable only to the XXVI! chapter ot Deuter¬ onomy in the bitterness of its invective; was exceiptionat, there are few exaniplca in history of a poem influencing a gene¬ ration so deeply and so directly. The revival, of Maccabean tendencies in the Ghetto dates from the poem; as did the self-defense organizations which sprang up all over Russia where Jews resided, to meet the new pogrom wave two years later, and also the "SHomerim" move¬ ment in Palestine, even the formation of the Jewish Legion which fought for the Holy_ Land in 1916—aJLmay be said to bp Bialik's children.
For some years now Bialik has rhade his_ home in Tel-Aviv, Palestine., His' residence, artistically designed in orien¬ tal style, surmounted by a dome, is re¬ plete with rare treasures, nqt least p. m., at the Cambridge Arms Apartmeilts, in honor of Celia Schanfar¬ ber Levy, of Chicago, Illinois, who will be guest speaker on Friday evening, Jan¬ uary 20th, at "Sisterhood Sabbatli" in Temple Israel. Rabbi and Mrs. Samuel M. Guit will also be guests at the luncheon. Mrs. I. A. Wolf> chairman of Hospitality of the Sisterhood, is making arrangements for the luncheon. .
UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTOR
TO ADDRESS AGUDATH
ACHIM OPEN FORUM
Mr. Louis Levine, an instructor in the iCollege lOf Commerce at the Ohio State University, will be the speaker before the Agudath Achim Open Forum^ at the Agudath Achim Synagogue, Wash¬ ington Avenue and Donaldson Street, on Friday evening, January 20, at 8 p. ra.
His subject will be announced at a later date, but the committee assures everyone that it will be a timely and in¬ teresting subject and urges all members of the Congregation and their friends, as well as the general community to attend. The usual discussion will follow the speaker's address.
Mr. Sam Wolman will preside as chairman of this meeting.
0. S. U. Avukah To Be Ad¬ dressed By Rabbi Hirsch¬ sprung On Sunday Evening
Rahbi Mordecai Hirschprung, of the Agudath .Adiim, .Cppgregati.cin, u wai,,^he^ the-guest speaker-at the-first meeting, of- Avukah during the winter quarter which wUl be held on Sunday evening, January 15th, at 8 o'clock, at the Hillel Founda-; tion. The subject selected by Rabbi Hirschprung is "Orthodox Judaism and Zionism."
Miss Bess Marks, educational chair¬ man, will give a report on a chapter in the History of Zionism. This marks a new form of Zionist; education which is replacing the usual current events. Other members on the Education com¬ mittee are Abe Gurdy, Aaron Levitin, Nathan Girundstein, and Joe Alson. A social hour will follow.
At the Regional Conference of the .\vukah Chapters of Ohio, which met in Columbus on December fith, 1932, a debate between the Western Reserve Chapter and the Ohio State Chapter was arranged. This debate dealing. with Zionism, will be held during the Spring vacation in Cleveland. Further announce¬ ments will be given at the meeting.
The Founder's Day banquet which will mark the Sth anniversary of Avukah on the Ohio State Campus, is being planned. The date has been set for Sunday, Feb¬ ruary aOth. The committee iii charge of arrangements are Rose Schalit, Helen Anne Nutis, Cecelia Schalit, Hilda Fist, Aaron Levitin, Nathan Grundstein, Nor¬ man Price, and Joe Klein.
Hebrew School Drive Is Mak¬ ing Rapid Progress
More than $3000 in pledges have al¬ ready been received for the 1933 budget in the Columbus Hebrew School Cam¬ paign which will continue to the end of January, it was annoimced this week by Allan Tarshish, recently elected campaign chairman,
A meeting of about fifty workers was held last Wednesday at the Hebrew School and several hundred names were distributed for solicitation of pledges. THe goal for 1933 is a minimum of $8,000, required to carry on the activities of the school.
A list of pledges thus far made, will be mentioned in next week's issue of the Chronicle.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
The Ivreeyoh Society wish to make the following announcement: On Sundav eveiiiug, February 5th, the Society will hold a tea at the Hebrew School. A very interesting program is being planned. Further particulars _ will be announced later. On the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, February 6tli and 7th, the Iv¬ reeyoh have taken over the Victor' Theatre at which time "The Blessed Event" will be presented. This picture was recently shown at one oi the down¬ town theatres. Tickets are now on sale at ISc, and can be obtained from either Mrs. Samuel Brief. FA. 3050, ur Mrs, Simon Handler. EV. 5978.
EZRAS NOSHIM MEETING
The regular meeting of the Ezras Noshim Society, will be held Sunday afternoon, Januai*y 15th, in the vestry rooms of the Agudath Achim Congrega¬ tion. All members are urged to attend tins meeting as very important business will be discussed.
L, F. L, MEETING
Junior Hadassah Meeting On
Snnday Afternoon At
Southern Hotel
Dr. Emily L. Stogdill, Clinician for Women at Ohio State University, will talk on "Personality Adjustment" at the meeting of the Columbus Unit of Junior Hadassah at the Southern Hotel Sunday afternoon at 3:li5.
"Songs in Costume" by Miss Betty Fry and Current Events by Miss Katherinq Baker are also included on the, program for this meeting, j
Miss Baker, Cultural Chairman of the organization, announces a meeting with Rghbi M. Hirschprung at the Agudath Achim Synagogue ori Monday evening, January 1&, at 8:15 P. M.
All members of the organization are urged to attend these meetings.
i know of no institution which is doing finer work than the Leo N. Levi Me¬ morial Hospital, of Hot Springs, Ark. During the past year this great House . of Healing provided for the care and maintenance of 4557 patients in its wards and clinics. According to Dr. A. B. Rhine, superintendent, these patients came from every section of the country; from as far cast as New York and as. far west as California, and represent practically every state in the Union. The expenditures for the year were ahout .?G5,000,
The hospital is strictly a charitable institution and admits no pay patients, though it encourages its patients to make a modest contribution towards their main¬ tenance if possible, The hospital is a modern institution in every respect and is listed as class A by the American Col¬ lege of Surgeons. In addition to _thc usual equipments bf a modern hospital, it is provided with the hot baths from tlie Arkansas Hot Springs which are owned by the Federal government. The Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital offers special facilities in the treatment of Arthritic and Rheumatic diseases.
Morris M. Levinson, of Columbus, who is now a patient there speaks highly of the splendid care and attention given all patients. In a letter to. the editor of the Ohio Jewish Chroiiicle, he commends the B'nai B'rith for the fouiid.mg and. the fostering of the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital.
I am glad to hear that Dr. Chaiin Weizmann, former president of the World Zionist Organization, was re¬ elected president of the English Zionist Federation last week and that his elec¬ tion was uncontested. Following his election, Dr. Weizmann appealed for wider support for the Keren Hayesod and di.scussed the present Zionist position in the light of the crisis in world Jewry. Dr. Weizmann declined to disiruss polit¬ ical questions, preferring. He said, not further, to aggravate an already aggra¬ vated situaticwi. He emphasized the satis¬ factory position in Palestine, the steady flow of immigrants into Palestine, the ab¬ sence of unemployment and the influx of capital.
"This satisfactory situation does not, unfortunately, affect the Jewish Agency which today is the weakest spot in^ the strucure we are building' in Palesine," assered. Dr. Weizmann. "A great many efforts arid enterprises have been tmder- iaken'din Palestine over-the -Uead*of- the- Jewish Agency whidi has had the effect of weakening it the more," he said.
The Keren Hayesod and the Jewish National Fund are also experiencing^ dif¬ ficulties, he declared. Dr. Weizmann ap¬ pealed to Palestine colonists to make larger contributions to these two fuiid.i and called upon the rich cplonists to make payments on the loans they have received from the Jewish Agency. He paid tribute to ihe Palestine High ,Com- missioner, "who," he said, "has our re¬ spect and who has affection for - our Home, but we are still struggling to at¬ tain a fair share for Jewish labor in the Mandatory's public works.
"No Arabs think of employing Jews, so we must insist that Jews employ Jew¬ ish labor until there is more co-operation between the three elements for the gen¬ eral benefit of the country." Dr. Wciz- mann's reference was to the recent dis¬ putes over the employment of Arab.labor ¦ by Jews, particularly in the Gan Sharon orange groves.
I wrish Dri Weizmann continued^ good health, so that he may forward his ac¬ tivities on behalf of a reiuvenated Jew¬ ish Homeland. He is one of the giants in World Jewry whose loyalty and faith¬ fulness lias neyer been questioned. He has always been making sacrifices to promote the Zionist cause, and, I am sure, he will continue to do so in the years to come.
A dispatcli from Warsaw informs me that a Cbristian Pole living in the town of StanislaU risked his wife's life rather than to allow her to be operated on by a Jewish physician. The woman was rushed to a Jewish hospital in Warsaw in a critical condition, when fishbones from her Christmas dinner stuck in her throat, threatening to choke her to death. When the husband learned tluit an opera¬ tion was decided upon to save her life, he removed her shouting, "The Jews want to kill her." Such an incident is symptomatic of the harrow, bjgotted in¬ fluences pervading the land of Poland. It smacks more of medieval ignorance than of twentieth century civilization.
The regiilar meeting. of the Ladies' Free Loan Society will be held on Tues¬ day evening, Jan. 17, in the social hall of the Agudath Achim Congregation. Election of officers will take place at this lime.
The Ladies* Free Loan Society will hold its annual dinner on Sunday even¬ ing, February 19th. in the banquet hall of the Agnrfath Achim Congregation. A delicious dinner will be prepared, and a prograni of real entertainment is beint; arranged. Reservations are beinflr made with either Mr:.. L. Brodskv. EV. 1353, or Mrs. L, Fishking, GA. 5213.
Rabbi Lee J. Levinger To Ad¬ dress Hadassah On Mon- day^ January 17th
In the calendar for suggested programs for Hadassah, Jamiary has been set aside for the Jewish National Fund. The local chapter of Hadassah will hold its regular meeting on January 17th, at 1:30 p. m., at the Southern 'Hotel, Rabbi Lee J- Levinger has accepted tlie invitation to give a.talk on "The Map of Palestine." "rhis will afford the membership a fine opportunity.to leant more about the vari¬ ous points of in^rest in Palestine.
All metnbers who have boxes in tlieir homes, are urged to bring them to this meeting, so that the committee in charge may continue with their work.
A musical program will be furnished .by Mrs, Josepl^ L. Schwartz, who will render several vocal selections. She will he accomiKinied on the. piano by Mrs, Max Schottenstein.
It seems to me that if tliere ib one outr president, for its kind donation of cuiined Mrs, Samuel Brief. FA. 3050, ur Mrs, with either Mrs. L. Brodskv. El (Continued on p>ige 2) fruits and jellies.' Simon Handler, EV. 5978. ^ 'or Mrs. L, Fishking, GA. 5213.
Jewish women must cultivate a Jewish social life, if Judaism is to continue, de¬ clared Mrs. Paula Ollendorf of Breslau, Germany, at a Channukah tea arranged by tlie New York City branch of the Women's League of the United Syna¬ gogues of America last week at the Park Lane Hotel, New York. Mrs. Ollendorf, who is vice-president of the National Council of Jewish Women of Germany, an organization of 00,000 members and also a descendant of Joseph Karo, the author of the Schulchan Arucli, contrasted the modern 'Jewish woman with the Jewish woman of the Ghetta-
"The walls of the ghetto preserved the 'Jewish people by compellii^ Jews to live together." Mrs. Ollendorf said. "When these walla are down their func¬ tion must be maintained. The Jewish woman must create a warm congeniaUty In social intercourse that will keep Jew¬ ish life in existence."
The Mizrachi Organization has for* mally opened ils campaign fur the year W-Vi, to raise $100,000 for the Mizrachi Palestine Fund. A delegation has come from Pjlestiiie, coiisisfini^ of Ualyla (ContimittI on [Xige 2)
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